[Football Manager 2019 Official Feedback Thread]

9 hours ago, luka_ said:

I'd like to see a screenshot of this. Let me guess..you don't have it.

Of course I don't have it. Why would I make screenshots of this nonsense?

Does this mean I lied or exagerated?

Pff, I can approach that balkan guy again, if you want, and throw you some screenshots. Rest of the cases I simply can't reproduce. Yet again, with the level of photoediting these days it won't prove anything..

You still playing the same game dude. Go try it yourself. Try signing  a talented player from say South America. A lot of Argentinian, Brazilian itc young prospect playing these days in Europe. Go check check these deals, it mostly $500k-5m transfers, with rare exception.

Now go buy any somewhat talented youngster from SA, not talking about next Messi level guys. AI would ask $15-30m+ for a kid valued at $90k, even if he is at his 16's, not known at all and their club scouts are amazingly terrible so there's no way they could have know that this guy got any potential.

 

8 hours ago, pauly15 said:

Maybe your scout has it wrong and he's a five star?  

Or maybe you're dealing with a Portuguese club?

It's not the case mate. I've encountered this situation countless times with other players, it's always like this.

Anyways, even if we assume my scout were wrong (still he got 19 Judging Player Potential and I thoughtfully scouted this player with all my scouting pool before approaching, like I always do) do you think this low ranked balkan club (not sure it was a even a first league) have better scouts then I do? So they surely knew this guy gonna be a superstar I doubt it...

And like andu1 said I severely doubt that any balkan club would ever refuse 50 millions for a 17 yo unknown kid under any circumstances.

Talking about balkans, just an example from recent years: Genk bought Milinkovic-Savic in 2014 from Serbian club Vojvodina for pity €400k and despite the fact he was already known as great young prospect back then.

Year later, in 2015, Lazio bought him from Genk for pity €4m, to this moment he was wide known as an amazing talent and already proved himself with 5 goals in his first season. He is a CM..

And these days he is valued at €90m+. Lazio almost sold him to Real Madrid for around €120m this summer...

Now good luck reproducing such deal in FM.. try to buy any known talent of this caliber for below €70-80 mills...

[Football Manager 2019 Official Feedback Thread]

I'm not ready to criticize ME yet. Surprisingly I see some improvements this years, but many many flaws too already.

But the transfer system.. I mean it's been like this for ages, but this year it is especially bad.

- Most of the times you can't sell a player, who spent a great season, even for his value. My winger is at 27, made 14 assists and scored 9 goals. We won a league.
He still costs pity $42 mil, but still I can't sell him even for 30.. best offer were 16 in 3 instalments plus some useless bonuses. Pff. And it's not something about this certain player,
it's just an example. The whole systems works like this.

But when you trying to buy something..

- Some relatively talented youngster 17, from some balkan league, with 3 stars, really nothing special. Millions miles away from being possible star in the future. He costs 350k.
Guess what? AI asking $96 millions for him. And nah, AI won't agree even for 50, I made an offer just for testing purposes. I don't know what to say here.
And yeah, every deal involving young player AI demands 50% of the profit of next sale as a must. Every single deal. So terribly realistic. I don't see many real world transfers with such dumb clause, tbh I can't recall even single one.

- Last thing that frustrated me to the point that I don't want to launch FM anymore.. I agreed a transfer, about $3.8m for a pretty average player, I just needed him for a squad depth purposes.
He play for a low rep team, who just promoted from lower league, moreover he had no playing time there, so he was extremely interested in joining. When contract talks started, suddenly he demanded $4,8m singing on fee (almost 3 times of his market value and more than whole transfer).. salary of $4m (he earn $377k in his current club) plus $2.5m as agent fee and of course tons of other bonuses. I had a good laugh, but I still tried to negotiate this nonsense deal, I just lowered singing on fee to $2m and salary to $3m, not touching anything else.. and guess what? He stormed out and don't want to talk with me anymore. Okay...

- And yeah, some time before this last drop that made me quit the game for uncertain period of time, I tried to sign De Ligt from Ajax. Guess what, before I approached this guy, nobody even cared about him.
But as I made a bit, suddenly like 6-7 top rated clubs made their bids too. No news here tho, it worked like this for many years. The thing that actually killed me here is the fact that they sold him to Chelsea for $36m with no other clauses (I checked), yet they asked $56m +50% of future transfer fee from me. Not a penny less. Amazing. Now tell me transfer system is not biased towards player.

And tons and tons of other BS. Seriously, after so many years of transfer system being in such awful state, they somehow managed to made it even worse this year.

 

[Football Manager 2018 *Official* Feedback Thread]

8 hours ago, JordanMillward_1 said:

Rather than listen to a vocal minority..

Well, when people are saying 'players not listening to orders' .. 'all goals are following same pattern' .. 'defensive players are dumb and slow to react to anything' .. 'players shooting it terrible and unrealistic and they keep missing the goal from very close range' itc itc - I tend to trust them, because I experienced that myself in previous versions so many times.

So.. Sure I understand that people come here just to complain, when things not going their way. But still I see ME has the same old problems, because of which I quit the game..

[Football Manager 2018 *Official* Feedback Thread]

Heh. I skipped last 3 or 4 FM editions, because.. you know, terrible ME, that just getting worse for year to year.

Today I had a moment of weakness, I wanted to buy FM18 for some reason, haha. But me are smart! I came here to read some opinions and was amazed by amount of negative feedback, it's seem even worse than in previous years..

Thank you guys for saving me some money.